EFFECT OF TAO-HONG-SI-WU-TANG, A TRADITIONAL CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE FORMULA, ON PHYSICAL FATIGUE IN MICE

Tao-Hong-Si-Wu-Tang (THSWT) is a famous traditional Chinese herbal medicine formula, which has traditionally been used in China for about one thousand years. The present study investigated the effect of THSWT on physical fatigue. 32 male mice were randomly divided into 4 groups with 8 in each group. All were administered orally and daily for 28 days. Group I received isotonic saline solution as control; Group II, III and IV obtained 5, 10 and 20ml/ kg body weight of THSWT solutions, respectively. After 28 days, the anti-physical fatigue effect of THSWT was evaluated by using a forced swimming test, along with the determination of blood lactic acid, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), liver glycogen and muscle glycogen contents. The data showed that THSWT could extend exhaustive swimming time of mice, as well as decrease the BLA and BUN contents and increase the liver glycogen and muscle glycogen contents. The results support that THSWT had anti-physical fatigue effect

A Model of Workflow Composition for Emergency Management

AbstractThe common-used workflow technology is not flexible enough in dealing with concurrent emergency situations. The paper proposes a novel model for defining emergency plans, in which workflow segments appear as a constituent part. A formal abstraction, which contains four operations, is defined to compose workflow segments under constraint rule. The software system of the business process resources construction and composition is implemented and integrated into Emergency Plan Management Application System

High throughput 16SrRNA gene sequencing reveals the correlation between Propionibacterium acnes and sarcoidosis

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Bis[1-(4-cyano­benz­yl)pyrazinium] bis­(1,2-dicyano­ethene-1,2-dithiol­ato)nickelate(II)

The asymmetric unit of the title complex, (C12H10N3)2[Ni(C4N2S2)2], consists of one 1-(4-cyano­benz­yl)pyrazinium cation and one half of an [Ni(mnt)2]2− dianion (mnt2− is 1,2-dicyano­ethene-1,2-dithiol­ate). The Ni2+ ion is located on an inversion center and is coordinated by four S atoms from two mnt2− ligands, exhibiting a square-planar coordination geometry. The cation adopts a conformation where both the pyrazine ring and the benzene ring are twisted with respect to the C—C—N reference plane by 16.5 (2) and 69.8 (1)°, respectively